Barack Obama Quotes
My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.
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Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.
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I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.
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Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
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I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.
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As president, I have the right to call a referendum based on a law that the Catalan parliament has approved.
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President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.
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In the '80s and '90s, China went through a giant change. It needed all resources. At the time, I was in the recycled paper business, and I realized the China market was a blank slate.
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I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
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I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.
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We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.
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I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.
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Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.
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Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all over and say 'I love you' over and over.
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To say more, is to say less.
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Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.
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The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two meetings.
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'NewsHour' is very interested in poetry, but they're also interested in not just that something's cute to add on at the end of their programming, but something that actually is integrated into the news.
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It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.
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I was learning things in school rather than learning how to teach myself, which is what you have to do in life, so I just abandoned it and did ceramics for a year and a half.
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My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.
